Guest Bullets

nutriment in a Pluralistic World: kinsfolk 5
Fernea - Guests of the Sheik - Intro and Ch. 1-4
??Copyright Bruce Owen 2007
??Quiz
??Reminder: first one-pager referable Tuesday, How cultural difference made a difference
?? expound on the class web page
??Guests of the Sheik background
??set in 1956-1958, loosely the year 1957
??ie. one year before a revolution, land reform, dismantling of the feudal system of landed
sheiks
??El Nahra: mostly Shia, or Shiite
??Spelling details
??today the preferred spelling is Islamic, non Moslem
??Arabic uses a different alphabet, so many Arabic words and names are indite in a
multiple ways in the Latin alphabet
??Diwaniya, Diwaniyah
??Abayah, abaya
??Iid, eid, id, id (feast)
??Id al fitr, id el fitr, id ul fitr (feast at the end of Ramadan)
??And many more
??Maps
?? light views (why are the doors blue?)
??suq
??abayah
??dishdasha
??kaffiyeh (and agal)
??aba (cloak)
??mudhif
??Intro
??I am not an anthropologist .... no?




??1st two years of marriage to Robert (Bob) Fernea, social anthropology alumnus student from U
of Chicago
??Chapter 1, Night Journey: Arrival in the Village
??El Nahra
??Guests of Sheik Hamid Abdul Emir el Hussein, chief of the El Eshadda tribe
?? vex at station in Diwaniya
??BJ is the only charwoman without an abayah
?? wherefore should I have to wear that ugly thing? Its not my custom
??They say an uncovered woman is an immoral woman
??If they cant take me as I am - if we have to perplex artificial gestures to prove we are
human beings too - whats the point?
Living in a Pluralistic World S 2007 / Owen: Fernea Intro, Ch. 1-4 p. 2
??my principles were debilitative before my embarrassment
??my principles were not as strong as my desire to be inconspicuous and well thought of in
my naked as a jaybird home
??Um Hassan = Mother of Hassan; Abu Hassan = Father of Hassan
??does this suggest anything about the importance of having children?
??culture shock - p. 10
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